Author: Maw, Ben

Source: History of Political Thought, Volume 28, Number 2, 2007 , pp. 253-289(37)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Abstract:

The article focuses on the analysis of class formulated by the anti-capitalist journalist and Chartist James Bronterre O'Brien. It argues that O'Brien's work contained the first example within working-class anti-capitalist political economy of a fully elaborated analysis of class antagonism. The article takes issue with recent accounts of O'Brien, which have seen his analysis as focused exclusively on the political rather than the economic realm, and which have denied the class character of his work. At the same time, it views O'Brien in his intellectual and historical contexts, thus eschewing the teleological framework within which his work has mostly been analysed

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Email: benmaw84@hotmail.com

Publication date: 2007-01-01

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